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Ilya Prigogine

Science philosopher and physicist specialised in thermodynamics. Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, won for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

25/01/1917
28/05/2003 (Brussels)

7 min.

Institution

Isis

Scientific journal, founded in 1912 by Georges Sarton.

Ghent (Belgium)

3 min.

Person

Jacob-Lodewijk Kesteloot

Physician and literary scholar.

09/10/1778 (Nieuwpoort)
05/07/1852 (Ghent)

5 min.

Person

Jan Baptist Gillis

Chemist and historian of science.

08/08/1893 (Arlon)
25/08/1978 (Ostende)

5 min.

Person

Jean Lecomte

Physiologist and physician.

1921 (Flémalle)
1996 (Liège)

3 min.

Person

Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie

Traveller, key figure in nineteenth-century Belgian science and head of the Royal Observatory.

07/10/1820 (Mons)
10/07/1888 (Schaerbeek)

11 min.

Person

Jean-Guillaume Garnier

French mathematician.

13/09/1766
20/12/1840 (Ixelles)

5 min.

Person

Joseph Bidez

Professor of classical philology and historian of science.

09/04/1867 (Frameries)
20/09/1945 (Oostakker)

2 min.

Person

Joseph Mogenet

Priest, classical philologist and historian of science.

26/02/1913 (Melreux)
18/02/1980

1 min.

Person

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet

Microbiologist, immunologist and Nobel laureate.

13/06/1870
06/04/1961 (Ixelles)

6 min.

Person

Julien Fautrez

Embryologist and anatomist.

09/06/1914 (Antwerp)
14/08/1996 (Ghent)

4 min.

Person

Julius MacLeod

Botanist and biologist.

19/02/1857 (Ostende)
03/05/1919 (Ghent)

2 min.

Person

Karel Maurice Nuyens

Physicist, mathematician and partisan. One of the creators of the first electron microscope in Belgium.

08/11/1901 (Brussels)
22/01/1970 (Uccle)

3 min.

Person

Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet

Mathematician, statistician and meteorologist. One of Belgium's most famous and influential scientists.

22/02/1796 (Ghent)
17/02/1874 (Brussels)

27 min.

Person

Louis Bouckaert

Mathematician and physicist.

02/01/1909 (Ostende)
27/01/1988 (Gistel)

4 min.